Laravel

In this tutorial we're going to learn how to setup and use scheduled tasks with Laravel to perform the same tasks on a regular timescale.
To use scheduled tasks in Laravel it will use your server cron jobs. What makes this different to just setting up a cron jobs is that Laravel will only have on entry in your cron job setup.

In this tutorial we're going to learn how we can use our .env variables inside the webpack.js config. The benefit of this is that we can now build the frontend assets based off variables in the application.

Laravel Jobs allow you to queue up processes to be done at a later date, this is normally reserved for longer running tasks or tasks that need to communicate with a third party.
Common task you send...

If you use Laravel debug bar when developing your app you'll notice there is a tab that will show you all the database queries your application is making.
This is a great tool to spot areas where yo...

The problem comes when you're using Redis as both the cache driver and the session driver. By default these are stored in the same Redis database, therefore if you ever clear the cache of your application you will also remove the session information, which results in all your users being logged out.

In this tutorial we're going to create a new Laravel listener that will listen to the user logged in event and then update the user record with the time they logged in.
This is a handy feature to che...